An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . it seriously ! andthere thou shall find, not only what the Church is, their doctrineof the Sacrament, the Worshipping of Images, Pilgrimage, Con-fession, Swearing, and Paying of Tithes : but also thou niayest seewhat strong and substantial arguments of Scripture and Doctors,and what clerkly reasons my Lord the head and Primate of theHoly Church in England (as he will be taken) bringeth agaiiistthis poor, foolish, simple, and mad losell, knave, and heretic, as hecalleth him. A nd also the very cause wherefore all their Examina-ti
An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . it seriously ! andthere thou shall find, not only what the Church is, their doctrineof the Sacrament, the Worshipping of Images, Pilgrimage, Con-fession, Swearing, and Paying of Tithes : but also thou niayest seewhat strong and substantial arguments of Scripture and Doctors,and what clerkly reasons my Lord the head and Primate of theHoly Church in England (as he will be taken) bringeth agaiiistthis poor, foolish, simple, and mad losell, knave, and heretic, as hecalleth him. A nd also the very cause wherefore all their Examina-tions are made in darkness. And the Lord of all Light shall lighten thee with the candle ofHis grace, for to see the Truth ! Amen. C This I have corrected and put forth in the English thatnow is used in England, for our Southern men;nothing thereto adding, ne yet therefromminishing. And I intend hereafter,with the help of GOD to put itforth in his own old English,which shall well serve, Idoubt not, both for UieNorthern men andthe faithfulbrethrenof Scot-land. lOI. [^Sgailliam of C|)orpe*2ipreface.] He lord god that knoweth all things,wotteth well that I am right sorrowful forto write or make known this Sentencebeneath written, where that of mine evenChristian, set in high state and dignity, sogreat blindness and malice may be known;that they, that presume of themselves todestroy vices and to plant in men virtues, neither dreadto offend GOD, nor lust [desire] to please Him: as theirworks shew. For, certes, the bidding of GOD and HisLaw (which, in the praising of His most Holy Name, Hecommandeth to be known and kept of all men and women,young and old; after the cunning and power that He hathgiven to them), the Prelates of this land and their ministers,with the comente [community] of priests chiefly consenting tothem, enforce them most busily to withstand and destroy theholy Ordinance of GOD. And therethrough, GOD is greatlywroth and moved to take hard vengeance, not only on themtha
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